Freedom Park

Freedom Park is located behind City Hall and offers a place for quiet reflection to honor our Service Men and Women as well as our Fallen Heroes.

It also has a Gazebo where many couples have joined together in marriage.

The park is located at 836 North Main Street. Highly recommended!

Lumberton City Park

FM 421 City Park is the newest addition to our parks in Lumberton, Texas. This 100-acre facility offers something for everyone. The one-mile road around the interior of the park offers an excellent place for walking, bike riding, etc.

There are several covered picnic areas complete with barbeque grills, a fenced-in playground area, and volleyball courts. You will also find a world class 18-hole disc golf course. The large covered pavilion with a stage and four dressing rooms is a great venue for weddings, concerts, or plays and is available for rent .

The park is located at 1300 FM 421 in Lumberton.

Village Creek State Park

Village Creek State Park’s 1,090 heavily forested acres are located in the Hardin County town of Lumberton, 10 miles north of Beaumont. The state acquired the property in 1979, and the park opened in 1994.

Village Creek State Park takes its name from Village Creek, a free-flowing stream that rises near the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation. The creek meanders 69 miles southeast to a junction with the Neches River. The river in turn eventually empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

Village Creek is a very popular flat-water canoeing stream in the heart and soul of what remains of the Big Thicket. Heavy rainfall severely floods the banks of Village Creek every three or four years.

Here visitors can camp, picnic, fish, hike, mountain bike, swim, geocache, study nature and view wildlife. A covered picnic pavilion can also be rented for group gatherings.

Portions of the park lie in the floodplains of Village Creek and the Neches River. Bottomland hardwood forests full of cypress-tupelo swamps, baygall and backwater sloughs abound here. These wetlands provide habitat for beaver and river otter, as well as for many kinds of fish, snakes, turtles and frogs.

Birders will enjoy seeing wood ducks, egrets, herons, woodpeckers and owls, just to name a few. Over 200 species of birds are native to the Big Thicket area.

It is located at 8854 Park Road 74 in Lumberton.

Village Creek State Park at Texas Parks and Wildlife

Martin Dies, Jr. State Park

In the 1960s, development of a new state park along Steinhagen reservoir began, with support from local East Texans and their state senator, Martin Dies, Jr.

Today, Martin Dies, Jr. State Park is a 705-acre recreation area nestled next to B.A. Steinhagen Reservoir between Woodville and Jasper. The park has three units in Jasper and Tyler counties. TPWD leased the park’s land from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1964, and officially opened in 1965.

The park offers a variety of outdoor activities, including camping at over 200 campsites, paddling, fishing, swimming, hiking, biking and more.

The park is located at 634 Park Road 48 South, Jasper, TX 75951

Martin Dies Jr. State Park at Texas Parks and Wildlife

Big Thicket National Preserve

The Big Thicket is an area of dense forest located north and northwest of Beaumont, and south of Woodville. This 97,000 acre National Preserve protects a unique environmental confluence of swamps, coastal prairies, piney woods, plant life and animals.

For more information visit the Big Thicket website at NPS

Sea Rim State Park

Offering more than five miles of natural Gulf of Mexico beach shoreline, Sea Rim State Park is where the marsh meets the surf, making it prime binocular-hunting grounds for numerous species.

Bring a kayak or canoe (or rent one at the park) and paddle along one of its paddle trails, or comb the sand for sea treasures that wash up on the shore.

Details at Texas Parks and Wildlife